Economic Endeavors

As has been posted on many other blogs, Walgreens has released a $5/$20 coupon that is good today only. I wasn't very excited about it because I'm not really a Walgreens shopper. I just started last month, went a couple times to buy the free-after-rebate (FAR) items and submitted them for the rebate on a Walgreens gift card, and was going to use the gift card to buy this month's FAR items.

Just in time for the coupon, my gift card came in the mail yesterday, loaded with $16.40 from my rebates from last month! So I thought this would be a great day to shop for this month's FAR items, use the coupon, and earn even more back.

I did one better by looking online for scenarios. Here's what I found at SlickDeals. I didn't come up with these scenarios, but this is what I'll be buying this evening:

Scenario one:

Buy Two Dr. Scholl's Insoles 2/$20, Get $10 RR
Buy two Nivea For Men Skin care items 2/$10, Get $5 RR

-$4 (2) Dr. Scholl's® Massaging Gel Insoles printables
-$4 (2) $2 off Nivea Body printables

Total before $5/$20 - $22

-$5/$20

Total after all coupons: $17 (pay with gift card + $0.60 oop)
earns $15 RR
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Scenario 2:

Multi betic vitamins 9.99 (free after rebate)
Walgreens calcium creamies 6.99 (free after rebate)
Theragran 4.99 (free after rebate)

-$2 Multi betic printable from the Diabetic Products site (must complete brief diabetes-related survey)

Total before $5/$20: $19.97

-$5/$20

Total after all coupons: $14.97 (pay with $15 RR from above transaction)
Get back $21.97 from the rebates (plus 10% for loading rebates onto a Walgreens card!)